དག་ཅི

Tibetan

དག་ཅི (Mentha royleana)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*dak.t͡ɕi/
• Lhasa: /tʰə(k̚)ˀ˩˨.t͡ɕiˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*dak.t͡ɕi/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tacg^v-ji
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰə(k̚)ˀ˩˨.t͡ɕiˑ/

Noun

དག་ཅི • (dag ci)

1. (botany, cooking) mint, especially Mentha royleana

   དག་ཅི་སྣུམ ― dag ci snum ― oil of mint

References

• “དག་ཅི” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.